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grasping

adj
/ˈɡɹæspɪŋ/US/ˈɡɹɑːspɪŋ/UK

Definitions

  1. Greedy, eager for wealth.

    • Just how, Agamemnon, great field marshal . . . most grasping man alive, how can the generous Argives give you prizes now? I know of no troves of treasure, piled, lying idle, anywhere.

  2. present participle and gerund of grasp

  3. The act of one who grasps or covets.

    • These are my connections, my attachments. Maybe all I really am is the sum of all these connections, these fearful longings and graspings.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at grasping. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at grasping. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at grasping

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA